Khaya Sithole: What’s the state’s role in business?
State participation is valid when the market can’t deliver what’s needed, such as roads and rail networks and telecommunications. But banks and airlines are private enterprise concerns
WHO’s flawed vaccine plan means well
Drug companies can be forced to ‘help’ competitors when it’s in the public interest. The WHO seeks a similar strategy for a Covid vaccine
Khaya Sithole: The perils of vaccine nationalism
If distribution of the eventual Covid-19 vaccine occurs along economic and political lines, all countries will remain at risk
Khaya Sithole: Steinhoff – a gang of desperate adventurers?
As long as the only legitimate litigant is Steinhoff itself, the company’s directors will remain at large
Khaya Sithole: Lessons to be learned from partitions
South Africa’s economic, racial and social divides invite unrest that will leave us all worse off
The ANC is selling false hope, but no one’s buying
The disciplinary paralysis in the ANC makes dealing with graft an ambitious exercise in futility
SAA rescue costs us social reforms
As with the ban on SAA flying to the United States in 1986, political pragmatism will eventually be trumped by economic realities
